Senior Virtualization Engineer

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Title:

Open Shift Virtualization Engineer

Location:

Australia || Remote
** While this is a remote position, there may be occasional requirements to escort vendors onsite for support purposes. Travel and accommodation will be provided as needed
** Job Description Get To Know Us:

SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products.  The Company’s operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions.  SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.

Why You Will Love It Here!

Flexibility:
Remote role

Your Future:
Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance Work/Life Balance:
Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave

Your Wellbeing:
Private Health Insurance discount, Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave, Death & TPD Insurance Diversity & Inclusion:
Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity Training:
Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University Extra Perks:
Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:
SS&C is searching for a skilled VMware / Open Shift Administrator to manage and optimize our container orchestration platform. As a VMware/ Open Shift Administrator, you will play a pivotal role in deploying, configuring, and maintaining VMware and Open Shift clusters while ensuring smooth operation and high availability of our applications. You will collaborate with the Engineering Team and as part of the operations teams to enhance our infrastructure and support continuous integration and delivery workflows.

Install, configure, and maintain VMware and Open Shift clusters on-premises.

Monitor cluster performance and troubleshoot issues to ensure optimal operation.

Manage user access and permissions within the Open Shift environment.

Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate application deployment.

Work with development teams to optimize applications running on Open Shift.

Create and maintain documentation related to Open Shift configurations and procedures.

Stay updated with the latest Open Shift and Kubernetes features and best practices.

Collaborate with security teams to implement best security practices for containerized applications.

Conversions from VMware to Open Shift Ability  to Manage a VMware environment

What You Will Bring:
· Open Shift Container Platform (OCP) — hands-on administration on bare-metal on-prem (UPI/IPI), cluster lifecycle, upgrades, and multi-cluster operations.
· Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RH-ACM) — multi-cluster fleet management: cluster lifecycle, governance, and application deployment from a central hub.
· Open Shift Git Ops / ArgoCD — declarative, Git-based management of cluster configuration, operators, and workloads across many clusters, including policy-driven governance.
· Open Shift Virtualization (OCP-Virt / Kube Virt) — deploying and operating VMs, live migration, VM templates, and instance types.
· Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV) — hands-on migration experience from VMware vSphere and/or RHV.
· Kubernetes clusters and workloads;
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration.
· Guest OS breadth — both Linux and Windows VMs in containerized/virtualized…